Re: 'Radical Life Extension' lecture by Ray Kurzweil, Chicago, August 22

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:11:19 GMT

In sci.med.nutrition Rob Colby <rrcolby@go.com> wrote or quoted:
> lagavril@yahoo.com (Leonid Gavrilov) wrote in message news:<5ad37781.0407161817.c754fd0@posting.google.com>...

> > Ray Kurzweil Ph.D., CEO & Founder of Kurzweil Technology, Wellesley,
> > MA
> > (for more details see the Congress website at
> > http://www.worldhealth.net/event/conf_program.php)
> >
> > Ray Kurzweil is a legendary dynamo of human innovation. He's founded
> > nine businesses in everything from speech recognition to artificial
> > intelligence. Now Ray Kurzweil's restless mind is focused on human
> > life.
>
> No offense to the great designer but programming neural nets and using
> fuzzy logic et al doesn't translate into expertise on human biology
> and longevity. Even though I'm in medical school, until I've actually
> treated someone professionally, I'm just an apprentice on the
> journeyman road and not a doctor. Kurzweil, as a software designer,
> should realize the same thing.

Kurzweil has spent some time looking at nutrition.

Enough time to write a book about it anyway:

``The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet
  and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer by
  Raymond Kurzweil''

 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517883015/

> > Immortality is just around the corner, according to Kurzweil. The
> > super-charged convergence of biology, computing, and nanotechnology,
> > he says, is about to radically extend human life. And it may be just a
> > matter of a couple of decades, not centuries, before the human
> > lifespan becomes essentially unlimited-- not 100 but many centuries.
>
> I have a feeling that biologists with some biomed/chemical engineering
> (i.e. drug delivery and tissue engineering) experiences will be the
> first to extend life into the healthy 130-180 years range before any
> of this nanotech hype delivers on Drexler's promises.

Could be. Kurzweil is sounding a bit optimistic to my ears.

The latest news on the life expectancy front:

``Aids reduces African life expectancy to 33''

``The Aids pandemic is ravaging countries in sub-Saharan Africa,
  drastically reducing life expectancy in some parts to less than 33
  years, a new UN report said.''

 - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=541516 

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